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In response to the passage from Thomas Hardy's "The Imaginative Woman" which portrays the mundane life that most women share in Victorian Society in lieu of marriage, as well as the role women are then confined to, I am sharing a poem by Christina…

This is an imagine of the Church of the Frari that appears in "Alicia's Diary". The description confirms the recount from Alicia in that the church itself is able to be gondola. The description in this piece of the inside matches that of Alicia's…

Builder William Shannon's contract read, "There are to be openings in the walls for two outside doors, four inside doors, and twenty-six windows."

Due to the high costs, windows in this era of American history were small and sparse. This is one…

Boston City TV presents a discussion on climate change while weighing in Frederick Law Olmsted’s principles.

The photograph shows the remnants of the Glenwood Power Plant with its rusted beams and hanging hooks to lift materials. The graffiti, which has been written in the last 20 years, now claims all space on the wall. Writers aim to have their name in…

In the video, Martin Luther King is making his famous "I have a dream" speech. He addresses the issue of segregation by talking of his dream of the future. A future where people of all races will be able to live together in harmony. Where people will…

This an image of the construction of the london metropolitan railway. At the time it was the first underground railway in the world. In the image one can see the men hard at work who at the time were probably working long hours in unsafe conditions.

This item consists of an 1869 review of Little Women published by The Athenaeum, and a review of a biography about Luisa May Alcott from The Independent, which elegantly discusses Alcott’s writing, primarily Little Women. Together the two reviews…